JD Beacon
An aerial rendering precedent of a super-tall skyscraper by Büro Ole Scheeren, showcasing sculptural carved voids and deep sky terraces that break the monolithic tower typology.
- What we like about this project
- Large, multi-story hollowed-out voids directly embedded within the tower's primary vertical volume.
Materials
- glass
- aluminum
- steel
Visual identifiers
- sky-terrace
- vertical-fins
- sculptural-carve
- super-tall-tower
Style tags
- contemporary
- megastructure
- futuristic
- high-tech
Visual tags
- skyscraper
- high-rise
- urban-density
- cantilever
- mixed-use
- aerial-view
- Geometry
- Slender vertical tower featuring major sculptural subtractions and cantilevers that create carved multi-level open sky terraces along its profile.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall overlaid with tight vertical louvers or fins.
- Structural guess
- Steel and concrete composite core with perimeter outrigger or diagrid framing systems.
- Spatial scale
- Super-tall skyscraper dominating the surrounding urban fabric with multi-story sky terrace cutouts.
- Lighting
- Golden hour sunlight strikes the corner facade fins, casting intense highlights and long atmospheric haze across the dense urban background.
- Atmosphere
- Dramatic and aspirational, emphasized by glowing sunset highlights and urban haze.
- Environmental context
- Dense metropolitan skyline with numerous high-rise towers, wide multi-lane boulevards, and parkland features in the background.
- Spatial experience
- The tower creates dramatic shifts from dense vertical enclosure to expansive outdoor public volumes suspended high above the city.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical fin rhythm punctuated by horizontal carved terraces and cantilevered floor plates.
- Style reading
- Contemporary megastructure high-rise design
- Program
- Commercial office and mixed-use high-rise
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, aluminum, steel
- Visual identifiers
- sky-terrace, vertical-fins, sculptural-carve, super-tall-tower
- Style tags
- contemporary, megastructure, futuristic, high-tech
- Visual tags
- skyscraper, high-rise, urban-density, cantilever, mixed-use, aerial-view
- Geometry
- Slender vertical tower featuring major sculptural subtractions and cantilevers that create carved multi-level open sky terraces along its profile.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall overlaid with tight vertical louvers or fins.
- Structural guess
- Steel and concrete composite core with perimeter outrigger or diagrid framing systems.
- Spatial scale
- Super-tall skyscraper dominating the surrounding urban fabric with multi-story sky terrace cutouts.
- Lighting
- Golden hour sunlight strikes the corner facade fins, casting intense highlights and long atmospheric haze across the dense urban background.
- Atmosphere
- Dramatic and aspirational, emphasized by glowing sunset highlights and urban haze.
- Environmental context
- Dense metropolitan skyline with numerous high-rise towers, wide multi-lane boulevards, and parkland features in the background.
- Spatial experience
- The tower creates dramatic shifts from dense vertical enclosure to expansive outdoor public volumes suspended high above the city.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical fin rhythm punctuated by horizontal carved terraces and cantilevered floor plates.
- Style reading
- Contemporary megastructure high-rise design
- Program
- Commercial office and mixed-use high-rise
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture